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Editor’s Note In this issue, Finally the dust has settled and we can brush off the garden furniture, enjoy ours wonderful parks which are quickly filling up with families gathered for picnics and kids running around enjoying the freedom of the outdoors. With only six months of the year to really indulge in the outdoors in this region, it’s vital that we make the most of it when we can. In our November issue, we looks at some of the most innovative and beautiful parks, including the award-winning Wahat Al Karama designed

by British artist Idris Khan, the UAE’s first memorial park located in Abu Dhabi. (page 22) In Silicon Valley, designers have created the most elevated green space in the region with The High Garden, a two-acre green oasis perched high above a building structure. The High Garden is designed to transform what would ordinarily be an underutilized parking deck with 250 parking spaces into a green sanctuary. (Page 28) Back in the UAE, we feature Ladybird Early Learning Centre in Dubai, which was designed to inspire young minds through the creative use of space with a focus on thoughtful internal and external spatial sequences. The learning space not only has an external courtyard which overlooks the classroom, it also has internal gardens with bi-fold doors that allows seamless integration between indoors and outdoors during the cooler climes when the doors are opened so children can easily transition between the two. (page 32) Enjoy the issue!

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ASLA Launches Guides on Home Landscape Design The ASLA sustainable residential design guides center around increasing energy efficiency, improving water management, applying ecological design and using low-impact materials. Developed for homeowners and landscape architects and designers alike, the guides are designed to help spread more sustainable and resilient practices.

The four guides fit into a larger trend about the growing preparedness of homeowners to make changes to their landscapes in response to climate change.

The ASLA 2017 Residential Landscape Architecture Trends Survey results showed that consumers prefer sustainable design elements for their outdoor living spaces.

Through integrated site design, a comprehensive approach to sustainable building and site design, sustainable residential landscape architecture practices can not only improve the environment, but also result in net-zero or even climate positive homes.

ASLA’s guides offer a wide selection of tips, research, and best practices, including The Sustainable SITES Initiative™ (SITES®), a system for developing sustainable landscapes.

Here are some best practices from the guides: Plant pollinator gardens. Bees, bats, and a number of other animals, including birds, beetles, and butterflies, play an important role in keeping ecosystems functioning, and provide vital services such as pollination. Homeowners can support pollinator population growth through such simple and cost-effective ways as growing pollinator-friendly plants, creating urban and residential beekeeping systems, and building bat houses.

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Practice ecological gardening. Edible gardens enable homeowners to grow their own food. However, fertilizers used in home gardens can pollute local watersheds through runoff. To avoid contaminating watersheds and damaging local ecosystems, homeowners growing productive landscapes should practice ecological gardening by using productive plants native to their environment and limit the use of chemicals.

Install drip irrigation. Drip irrigation systems provide water through slow application directly at plants’ root zones, avoiding excess watering while keeping the roots at optimum moisture level. These systems reduce over-watering, evaporation, runoff and deep percolation of water. Drip irrigation is a cost-efficient means of improving water efficiency. It is adaptable to any landscape and requires minimal maintenance.

Reuse and recycle. Instead of using increasingly-scarce virgin woods, particularly from tropical hardwoods, homeowners can use reclaimed wood from existing structures and avoid sending that material to the landfill. Recycled wood can be salvaged from places like old buildings and shipping materials, and restored for a variety of residential uses, including decking, seating, and fences.

Go solar. Landscape architects can work with homeowners to develop an integrated site design to incorporate solar power systems into structures or leverage other energy-efficient technologies. Solar arrays can be placed in optimal locations to achieve the most solar gain with the least visual impact, and cojoining solar and green roof systems can further further improve energy efficiency, extend the value of solar systems, and provide more biodiversity on the roof.

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“Go Wild Dubai”

campaign to celebrate protected areas Dubai Municipality is embarking a two-week campaign to bring together communities to raise awareness on Dubai’s wildlife and the beauty of its natural world. A series of events are planned for the campaign, themed “Go Wild Dubai,” which is being organized during 15-31 October, focusing on getting the community outdoors to discover Dubai’s protected areas.

Eng. Alya Al Harmoudi, Director of the Environment Department in Dubai Municipality, said that Dubai’s Protected Areas are very cherished by the Municipality and represent the emirates’ prioritization of protecting nature. “We want all Dubai residents to know about their city’s natural world and to appreciate it,” she added.

“If we do not safeguard the future of Dubai’s natural environments, it is us who will have to answer to our children and our grandchildren.

Dubai has a very rich and unique natural world, which is home to a variety of protected areas that boast impressive species of biodiversity.

It’s important that visitors and residents understand, appreciate and care for these areas, as well as all ecosystems in Dubai,” added Al Harmoudi.

Emphasizing the importance the initiative, she said that Dubai’s protected areas are key to species conservation. “Dubai has eight protected areas that were established to protect vulnerable and important species in their natural habitat. Some species include Ghaff trees, Arabian Leopards, Hawksbill Turtles, Houbara Bustards and many more. These protected areas cross various ecosystems, such as coastal, marine, desert and wetland and feature a large variety of flora and fauna species,” pointed out Al Harmoudi.

Aisha Almurr Al Muhairy, Head of Natural Resources and Conservation Section commented that “the protected areas in Dubai cover 16.5 % of the total area of the Emirate which represent the various ecosystems - desert, marine, coastal and mountain habitats, which are rich with multiple species of plants, animals, fish and birds.

These species have international importance due to pressures they are facing in different countries, causing them to become threatened with extinction.”

“Our protected areas were established to protect Dubai’s main threatened species which inhabit them, which include Arabian Tahr, Hawksbill Turtle and Houbara and we should put high priority into conserving these species for us and for generations to come,” she added.

Tasnim Al Falasi, Head of Environment Awareness Section said: “We are trying to encourage the public to understand the importance of our nature. For example, the Mangrove tree is a key species, as it provides important habitats and feeding grounds for visiting and migratory birds. Mangrove roots also bind sand and prevent the erosion of our coasts from wave activity.”

She added that this initiative aims to invite people to explore our protected areas and discover Dubai’s many natural wonders.

“In doing so, we hope they will be inspired to protect it with us and

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to think about how they’re part of nature and how intimately we are connected to it. Protection and longevity of nature is crucially aligned with our own.”

The Go Wild Dubai initiative was established to coincide with the observance of 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development as designated by the United Nations 70th General Assembly. In the context of the universal 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017 aims to support a change in policies, business practices and consumer behavior towards a more sustainable tourism sector and contribute to the SDGs. Dubai’s eight protected areas were established with the purpose of conserving and protecting its habitats and wildlife while encouraging and promoting sustainable tourism. The Go Wild Dubai initiative activities aim to showcase and inform people about the protected areas and encourage them to visit these areas.

The Go Wild Dubai events will include a series of activities and workshops at Jebel Ali Marine Sanctuary, from October 15th – 31st from 9am – 6pm daily. The calendar focuses on school students throughout the week and the general public on Fridays. The activities focus on the learning and understanding of our wildlife.

The planned activities include wildlife photography workshops, where professional wildlife photographers will lead groups around the area, spotting wildlife and giving them tips on how best to capture an image of them, while teaching them about the animals and how not to disturb them.

Bird watching workshops will take place in the bird watching hides, where groups can use binoculars to spot different species, while specialists from Dubai Municipality will explain the variety of species and things to look out for when bird watching.

After the group has become familiar with some of Jebel Ali Marine Sanctuary’s bird residents, they will be invited to a bird call workshop, where they can learn and recognize various bird calls and try to imitate them.

In addition to that there will be a guided tour of the Jebel Ali Marine Sanctuary, a nature quiz, in which groups will be invited to challenge their knowledge of Dubai’s natural world and the participants can win prizes. There will also be a host of other activities for children and families to enjoy. The initiative marks the start of an ongoing wider objective to ensure Dubai’s protected areas are understood, visited and appreciated. Dubai Municipality hopes this initiative will inspire the community to become further involved in conservation and species protection programs, and in building a strong and dedicated volunteering community that protects Dubai’s wildlife.

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I news & events Another example is the city of Montpellier which manages nearly 1853 acres of parks and gardens. Rapidly expanding, Montpellier’s urban development plan reduces concrete in favour of revegetation. To meet strong demand for parks and gardens, the city adapted to urban constraints.

Revegetation, parks and gardens.

Basics for city centres and urban environments For several years now, public authorities have realised the importance of urban parks and gardens. Elected representatives, the general public as well as property developers and landscaping entrepreneurs all want to transform today’s towns into green, ecological cities. This aim and challenge permeates Paysalia 2017!

Parks and gardens have become “must” living spaces much valued by residents seeking to commune with nature and greener surroundings. To meet this need, communities have adopted “city greening” projects covering many aspects of urban problems and designed to federate locals. Zoom on rapidly changing urban landscapes.

New urban green space development projects Projects aiming to create or rehabilitate urban parks and gardens are a major concern for communities because of population growth and strong demand from inhabitants. A survey by the Observatory of Green Cities 2017 set up by the Unep in partnership with Hortis reveals that France’s biggest 50 cities have, on average, 2.854 acres of parks and gardens and invest an annual 5 million euros in the creation of new spaces on average.

Nantes has 100 gardens and over 2594 acres of parks and gardens and many natural zones. With an annual budget of 17 million euros, the city has focused its urban development on several “green” projects like the island of Nantes (85,2ac) and the “Green Star” project to connect all parks and gardens together so that every inhabitant can find a green space within 300m from home.

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Changing uses of parks and gardens Much appreciated by local inhabitants, parks and gardens have an important place in urban environments as sources of wellbeing and health. In recent years, their use has increased significantly. According to the Observatory of Green Cities, 8 in 10 French people choose a dwelling near a green space and go there regularly (30% once a week and 20% at least once a month).

The Observatory confirms that gardens are important aspects of homes today, second only to living rooms. For homes without gardens, nearby green spaces are considered as ideal places to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life. Parks and gardens are used for many purposes, alone or in a group.

Parks and gardens are also used for festivities and cultural activities.

Green Cities for tomorrow’s world In its study, the Observatory of Green Cities notes that 50% people in France want ecologically friendly and vegetated towns in tomorrow’s world. Moreover, nearly 10,000 of them signed the “gardens for the climate” petition when the COP21 was held because they believe that the two concepts are indissociable: ecologically friendly to reduce the carbon impact on cities, recycle wastes and limit energy consumption, vegetated to promote parks and gardens and the expansion of flora with, for example, the creation of terraces and green roofs and walls with blue-green infrastructures.

Plants also play a significant role in the reduction of the effects of global warming. Parks, gardens and woodlands are genuine “natural urban air-conditioners”, absorbing heat during heat waves, cooling the air by as much as 2°C. Green roofs reinforce the thermal insulation of multi-storey buildings, guaranteeing a reduction in energy consumption. And we should also remember that the ecological benefits of parks and gardens include the limitation of flooding risks, the filtration of pollutants and the storage of carbon. They become harbours for urban biodiversity.

Paysalia is focused on green cities Thematic conferences, exhibitors, dedicated days… the Green City is a concept mirrored in the discussions and events at Paysalia 2017. Zoom on the “Green City” days organized during Paysalia.

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THE IFLA SIR GEOFFREY JELLICOE AWARD 2017 The international federation of landscape architects (ifla) announces the winner of the premier world wide award in landscape architecture: The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), which represents the worldwide profession of Landscape Architecture, proudly announced today at the opening ceremony of their World Congress in Montreal, Canada, that Dutch Landscape Architect Dirk SIJMONS has been selected as the winner of the 2017 premier award for Landscape Architecture, the IFLA - Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award.

The Award Jury composed of a Landscape Architect from each of the five IFLA regions, and the Secretary General of ISOCARP (International Society of City and Regional Planners) who served as a guest member of the Jury, agreed with the nomination statement, that “Dirk has made, and makes, remarkable contributions to the profession, and the main quality of these contributions is that they redefine the profession, its borders, its strategy and its position”.

Coming from an Architectural background, and then working as a spatial planner, Dirk Sijmons is well placed to see Landscape as a mirror of society and as a living coproduction between nature and man; this relationship has been his lifelong fascination.

His early years working as a spatial planner in the Dutch Ministry of Culture led him to question what societal processes, ranging from food production to urbanization, can be enticed to act as positive formative forces in the landscape. On the other hand, he questioned what natural processes, ranging from erosion and sedimentation to succession, can be turned into nature-based solutions for human needs.

His work revolves around how these processes might be guided by landscape architecture to give them a meaningful spatial expression.

Dirk Sijmons came to realise that in the age of the Anthropocene, now that the once thought sealed

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boundary between nature and society is crumbling, landscape architecture can play, even more so, a vital mediating role between the two.

Dirk Sijmons, studied architecture from 1967 to 1977 at the Technical University-Delft. His strong track record in environmental and spatial planning led to his recognition as a Landscape Architect in 1986 by the National Architects Register.

Among a long list of professional contributions, his nominating letters mention in particular the following noteworthy areas of his career: his role in the famous 1985 Plan Ooievaar (‘Stork Plan’); a revolutionary plan concerning the making of new nature as part of a large scale landscape restructuring; the work of the office H+N+S he founded with Lodewijk van Nieuwenhuijze and Dick Hamhuis; an office that since its foundation always tackled projects that are innovative, expanding the scope of landscape architecture and emancipating the profession; his supervision of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, the first landscape architect chosen in this role, for which he advanced the provocative theme Urban by Nature, again throwing an entire new light of what landscape architecture is capable of; his state advisorship on landscape, being the first in this role, and in fact also engaged in creating the role; the recent expansion of the work of H+N+S abroad, and the contribution he gave by accompanying the work with English spoken publications, for example on ‘energy landscapes’.

To these can be added Dirk Sijmon’s important contribution in the Academic field which is no less impressive. He has taught landscape architecture in such prestigious institutions as the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania, the Edinburgh School of Design, UT-Delft and many others, both at home and overseas.

He excels at providing surprising new insight, using a broad range of literature to support his point of view.

Being himself superb in arguing, he has always been a very inspiring coach for others, and has been able to surround himself with people that supported these arguments in drawings, texts and Excel tables. Sijmons feels strongly the importance of relating practice and academia and that it is vital that landscape architects know about operational issues, facts and trends.

If landscape urbanism has become a significant frame to speak about landscape architecture, Sijmons must be seen as a landscape urbanist avant la lettre.

His entire discourse speaks about processes, operation, engineering solutions; he never ceased to argue that such words must be understood as cultural acts, and are therefore part of the design domain. In doing so, he strongly contributed to an emancipation of landscape

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architecture in the Netherlands and abroad, claiming that the profession of Landscape Architecture not so much arrives after the architects and urbanists have dome their work, but proudly takes the lead, putting forward an understanding of the big scale, of processes over time and of the interdisciplinary nature of urban processes.

DirK SIjmons lives and works in Amersfoort in the central province of Utrecht , the Netherlands.

Dirk Sijmons was one of three candidates to be short listed for the IFLA SGJA Award.

THE AWARD The IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award is the highest honour that the International Federation of Landscape Architects can bestow upon a landscape architect.

The Award recognizes a living landscape architect whose lifetime achievements and contributions have had a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of society and the environment and on the promotion of the profession of landscape architecture. The award is bestowed annually on an academic, public or private practitioner whose work and achievements are respected internationally.

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Future Landscape & Public Realm Jeddah

Landscaping and public realm new opportunities in Jeddah Jeddah and Saudi Western cities are some of the main regions that have witnessed major projects in the last few years. In line with the country’s developmental plan, mega projects have been launched, such as the King Abdullah Economic City, Makkah Gate, and Knowledge City in Al Madinah.

Advanced Conferences & Meetings and their local partner XS Conferences & Exhibitions are proud to announce the launch of Future Landscape & Public Realm Jeddah on 11-12 December 2017 in Jeddah, KSA. This initiative will bring together international and local streetscaping, hardscaping, softscaping, landscaping professionals and decision makers to meet, network and exchange knowledge and expertise.

Jeddah: An attractive, high quality city Combined with the country’s aim to increase its tourism and providing better life quality to its citizens, these developments have created new opportunities for the landscaping and public realm sector as it has become a top priority for project owners to ensure that their projects are attractive, which in turn increases their market value. Future Landscape & Public Realm Jeddah will discuss the key projects in the Western region, challenges faced and innovative solutions.

For further information about the conference, please visit www.futurelandscapejeddah.com

Asia’s only hybrid greenery and landscape design event back for 3rd edition GreenUrbanScape Asia, the region’s only platform unifying both greenery and landscape design communities, returns for its third edition on 9 – 11 November 2017 at the Singapore EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre with various firsts, including the engagement of communities not involved in previous iterations of the event.

This year, new communities have been engaged, such as landscape construction companies, non-profit green groups as well as gardening enthusiasts and hobbyists via the inaugural Consumer Marketplace. The event is poised to become Asia’s only end-to-end landscape, leisure, greenery design, construction and technology event that brings together stakeholders from both public and private sectors, as well as academics and consumers, in addressing revolutionary green approaches to integrate social needs into urban infrastructure.

Jointly organised by Landscape Industry Association (Singapore) (LIAS), the National Parks Board (NParks), Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects (SILA) and SingEx Exhibitions, the 3-day GreenUrbanScape Asia 2017 event is expected to attract over 4,000 trade professionals and buyers from over 30 countries. Themed “Symbiosis: INTENSE Nature Within Cities”, the event will feature both trade exhibition and consumer components, as well as the 4th edition of the International Skyrise Greenery Conference in a single setting to facilitate the exchange of ideas and innovation at both trade and consumer level.

There will be close to 100 participating companies and brands at the exhibition this year, including leading players in the landscape and urban design, equipment, materials and components, urban solutions and technology, as well as complementing services.

These include Parks & Play, Greenology, Makita Singapore, Multico Equipment & Parts, Swan-Li (Singapore), amongst others. The Government Pavilion will also feature project showcases by statutory boards including NParks and the Urban Redevelopment Authority.

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Inspired by placemaking, Garden Zones will be introduced and strategically placed around the trade show floor, creating unique, impactful areas that redefine the overall User Experience at GUSA 2017. Each “Themed Area” serves a familiar activity that’s been creatively brought to life: Meeting Garden – Outdoor garden themed meeting zones Resting Garden – Zen-inspired rest and relax zones Edible Garden – ‘Farm-to-Fork’ organic produce through a mobile kitchen Garden of Innovation – Workshops on technological disruption in landscaping Held alongside the GreenUrbanScape Asia trade exhibition, the 4th International Skyrise Greenery Conference (ISGC) will cover 26 key topics through four plenary sessions – Vertical Resilience, Cities on a New Level, Placemaking and Therapeutic on the Rise and four parallel tracks – Green Roofs – My New Backyard, Verticality and Safety, Hidden Challenges, and Biotech and Innovation, presented by 27 industry-renowned speakers representing 12 cities.

ISGC delegates will also have the opportunity to participate in the highly popular guided Technical Tour to various award-winning skyrise greenery projects in Singapore on 11 November 2017, to experience how landscape architects push the boundaries of design and integrate social needs into urban infrastructure.

With more than 20 vendors providing an array of fresh plants and flowers, natural and organic wellness products, gardening supplies, landscaping design and implementation services, as well as lifestyle and smart gardening solutions, the Consumer Marketplace is set to attract majority of Singapore’s green thumb community. Apart from product vendors, the Marketplace will also feature free talks and demonstrations, hands-on workshops, as well as a balcony garden showcase for exploration of ideas.

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Built-in pressure compensating or regulating devices provide the best option since the optimum operating pressure is delivered directly to each sprinkler head. This will eliminate misting caused by high pressures, reduce water drift due to wind, and give the water droplets the best chance of getting to where they are designed to go.

Tip #5: Adjust the distance between lateral lines to compensate for the slope.

On a 2:1 slope, a properly adjusted sprinkler will throw about 80 percent of its radius above the head and 120 percent of its radius below the head. This concept is difficult for many people to understand because, on the site plan of an irrigation project, slopes appear to cover less ground than they actually do, and the effect of the slope cannot be accurately portrayed.

Therefore, sprinklers can be spaced consistently along the lateral, but the distance between bottom and middle laterals should be reduced and moved up toward the top of the slope to obtain head-to-head coverage and compensate for the true effects of the slope.

Tip #6: Space lateral lines across the slope rather than with the slope.

When installing the lateral lines, make sure they follow the contours of the slope. If lateral lines are incorrectly installed from the top to the bottom of a slope, the pressure differential resulting from the elevation change could create severely uneven pressures at each of the sprinkler nozzles. This will cause irregular water distribution.

Additionally, the higher pressures at the bottom could shorten the longevity of the pipes and sprinklers.

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Tip #7: Limit sprinkler heads on a valve zone to decrease potential damage.

I Technical Series As you add more sprinkler heads to a zone, the size of the delivery system components and infrastructure will increase. In this case, bigger also means that more water will be available to cause damage in the event that something on a system breaks. Consequently, large zones are not recommended unless other safeguards are included to circumvent potential problems.

Tip #7: Limit sprinkler heads on a valve zone to decrease potential damage.

Tip #8: Limit sprinkler heads on a valve zone to increase performance.

As you add more sprinkler heads to a zone, the size of the delivery system components and infrastructure will increase. In this case, bigger also means that more water will be available to cause damage in the event that something on a system breaks. Consequently, large zones are not recommended unless other safeguards are Tailor the irrigation to meet theproblems. specific water requirements of the slope areas. Separate zones to apply included tosystem circumvent potential

water to slope sections with considerably different plant material, as well as different exposures to sun, wind and other climatic influences. If you mix zones together, it will be hard to keep plant material healthy because one Tip #8: Limit sprinkler heads on a valve zone to increase performance. side of the slope will get too much or too little water.

Tailor the irrigation system to meet the specific water requirements of the slope areas. Separate zones to apply water to slope sections with considerably different plant material, as well as different exposures to sun, wind and other climatic influences. If you mix zones together, it will be hard to keep plant material healthy because one side of the slope will get too much or too little water.

Tip #9: Place part-circle sprinklers on separate zones or use matched precipitation rate nozzle packages.

Tipdistribution #9: Place part-circle sprinklers on separate Uniform water is critical for effective slope precipitation rate nozzle packages. irrigation. To achieve this, separate part-circle sprinklers from full-circle sprinklers, and then adjust the station run times. An easier method is to usedistribution nozzle sets that are specifically Uniform water is critical for effective slope irrigation. achieve this, separate part-circle sprinklers designed to create To consistent precipitation rates, despite thefrom full-circle sprinklers, and then adjust the station run times.

An various arcs and radii.

zones or use matched

easier method is to use nozzle sets that are specifically designed to create consistent precipitation rates, despite the variousprecipitation arcs and radii.rate nozzles on the same valve Using matched

system reduces the chance that your system will put down too Using the same valve much water withmatched some precipitation heads and rate not nozzles enoughonfrom others. system reduces the chance that your system will put down This will help to diminish the potential for severe soil erosion.too much water with some heads and not enough from others.

This will help to diminish the potential for severe soil erosion.

Tip #10: Install sprinklers with check valves to contain erosion.

Tip #10: Install sprinklers with check valves to contain erosion.

When used properly, a check valve will contain the When used properly, a check valve will contain the unpressurized water in the lateral lines after the zone unpressurized water in the lateral lines after the zone valve has completed its watering cycle (if the valve is valve has completed its watering cycle (if the valve is located at located a higher Without a check valve, at elevation). a higher elevation).

Without a check valve, the elevation from a valve to the the difference elevation difference from a above valve above to the below could generate enough internal sprinklers sprinklers below could generate enough internal pressure to force water out of the sprinkler. pressure to force water out of the sprinkler.

A check valve will prevent the water that remains in the

A check valve will prevent the water that remains in the pipe from draining out of the sprinklers after the valve pipe from has draining out of the sprinklers after the valve of shut off—thus reducing the chance of erosion has shut off—thus reducing the chance ofslope. erosion the landscape areas around or on the Lookoffor the landscape areas around or on the slope. Look for

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sprinklers that have built-in check valves. This eliminates the need for a separately installed check valve under each sprinkler. sprinklers that have built-in check valves. This eliminates the need for a separately installed check valve under An added benefit... each sprinkler.

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Dripline which offers controlled release watering to help eliminate runoff and encourage healthy root growth. Not only will the landscape dripline improve the visual impact of the site, it isn't visible, and may help cut down on Because many slopes are planted with ground cover instead of turf, consider installing highly efficient XF vandalism.

Dripline which offers controlled release watering to help eliminate runoff and encourage healthy root growth. Not only will the landscape dripline improve the visual impact of the site, it isn't visible, and may help cut down on vandalism.

Effective slope irrigation is a mixture of good upfront planning, proper installation, and a solid maintenance Effective slope irrigation is a mixture technique. If all three are done of good upfront planning, proper properly, many emotional, financial, installation, and a solid maintenance and physical problems can be technique. If all three are done avoided—and a healthy, properly, many emotional, financial, aesthetically pleasing slope planting and physical problems can be will be the result. avoided—and a healthy, aesthetically pleasing slope planting will be the result.

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The battle of who has the world’s coolest office has been raging on for a few years now. Employers such as Google an best from their staff. The idea is to make the environment people work in a joy to commute to each morning.

Office design is now considered a critical element for attracting and retaining talent. Especially if it’s a younger demograp what is it that may mean you lose out?

Offering a competitive salary will be an obvious factor. But there are other non-financial benefits such as flexible workin with your company you can translate that into design. Then you’ll be able to ensure that you’re attracting the right sort WHAT DESIGN SHOULD YOU OPT FOR?

THE QUIRKY OFFICE REFURBISHMENT

Quirkier offices have become more popular because people work better in different environments.

This style is great for enterprises with large office spaces and a millennial team.

Introverts are more productive when working in a quiet, comfy seating area. Whereas others thrive when they are able to bounce ideas with others. Some employers have created ‘zones’ to enable different team members to work in a way that suits them. This enables a healthier bottom line.

Consider your own business, the size of team, and work culture that you want to encourage.

Also, think about what you want your clients to see. These are all important factors that may contribute to the end result.

A café with artificial grass carpeting the floor will encourage collaboration and a healthy workforce, whereas a games room with lawn on the walls could create a great space to take a break and enjoy an immersive experience.

If you want to go for it, you could create a play area for employee’s pets. Artificial grass is considered to be a good choice for dogs, and being a pet-friendly workplace has a whole host of benefits.

We’ve found that indoor greenery can help inspire mindfulness in employees.

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UAE memorial park scoops American architecture prize Creative Studio UAP and British artist Idris Khan’s Wahat Al Karama park wins 2017 American Architecture Prize By: UAP & Idris Khan 22

The first Memorial Park in the UAE celebrating the brave soldiers and other Emiratis serving the nation has won the 2017 American Architecture Prize - Cultural Architecture category. British artist Idris Khan’s artwork forms the memorial at the heart of Wahat Al Karama park.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces commissioned the park. Symbolically located between Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and the general headquarters of the UAE Armed Forces, Wahat Al Karama, which means ‘oasis of dignity’, covers an area of 46,000 square meters.

International art, design and fabrication studio UAP was appointed to commission the memorial and collaborated on the pavilion. The studio is behind some of the most unique and ground-breaking public realm projects, such as the center piece of the ‘King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Breakwater Beacon’ in Saudi Arabia and most recent project with Ai Weiwei and Public Art Fund called “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” in New York City.

UAP’s curatorial team short-listed a number of world-renowned international artists that entered the competition, from which the Crown Prince Court selected

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Idris Khan. Khan was selected due to his profound affinity with local UAE culture, combined with a strong western voice.

Commenting on the design, Khan said, “The idea was to create a park for reflection on both loss and remembrance, a spiritual place that conveyed unity and support. I wanted this monument to have positive and hopeful resonance while inspiring curiosity in sculpture and how contemporary art can influence emotions.”

He added, “It is a place for serenity within a city busy with construction and growth, a major part of a country’s history and landscape that will be absorbed by the cultural awareness of future generations.”

The Memorial comprises 31 aluminium standing tablets, each 23 metres in height. The tablets lean on each other to represent unified strength, power and pride among soldiers, loved ones and their country. With its impressive scale, the memorial represents the eternal martyr, a place of reassurance and defiance. Its two front tablets stand vertically and are intended to evoke a sense of humility when approached.

The tablets feature a series of Arabic poems and quotes from both the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The poems and verses encourage the viewer to discover and touch the engravings as they walk through the artwork, creating a personal relationship with the memorial.

Each tablet was carefully handcrafted by UAP’s design and fabrication team. The 31 tablets are made of a total of 850 cast

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aluminium panels. UAP’s team used a hand painting technique to achieve a delicate gradient of colour on the surface that captures the light rather than reflecting it.

Founder and Creative Director of UAP, Daniel Tobin said that he felt privileged to have won but most importantly to have had the opportunity to collaborate with an “exceptional artist” like Idris Khan.

He said, “An integral part of Idris Khan’s practice is a repetitive action of mark-making and erasure. The result is a subtle, intense texture which forms an infinite pool of marks, seeming to appear and disappear. UAP’s team successfully translated the artist’s beautiful and timeless mark-making into 3,000 square metres of cast metal.”

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Adding, “Working closely with Khan as the design developed, and throughout the fabrication process, the team’s creative problem-solving abilities enabled the translation of the monumental vision into a tangible object.”

As part of the commission, UAP oversaw the design and delivery of The Pavilion of Honor, also designed by Khan in collaboration with Brisbane-based architecture firm Bureau Proberts and engineering consultancy Robert Bird Group.

The Pavilion of Honour is a circular structure located at the end of the visitor’s journey. There are seven standing glass panels at its core surrounded by a water feature, representing the seven emirates of the UAE. The circular internal wall is cladded with 2,800 aluminium plates made from reclaimed metal from armoured vehicles used in service, which are inscribed with the names of the UAE’s heroes.

Engineering firm AECOM was responsible for the overall design of the memorial Park.

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Project: Wahat Al Karama Completed: Dec 2016 Client: Miral Monument lead consultant: UAP Memorial park lead consultant: Aecom Consultant architect: bureau^proberts Consultant engineers: Robert Bird Group Design and build: UAP Location: Abu Dhabi

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Playground in the sky Silicon Valley’s highest garden serves its creative community By: DES Architects + Engineers Moffett Place High Garden — a two-acre rooftop park in the heart of Silicon Valley, recently completed by DES Architects + Engineers (DES A+E) is one of the largest elevated parks ever completed in the region.

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As a full-service design firm headquartered in Redwood City, California, DES A+E provides creative and sustainable solutions that serve the needs of science, technology, developer, education, and healthcare clients.

The High Garden is designed to transform what would ordinarily be an underutilized parking deck into a green oasis. Instead of 250 parking spots, it has two-acres of green space. The park is one of the central amenities to the Moffett Place campus, which was recently leased to Google in its entirety. The campus is the second largest office project under construction in Silicon Valley.

Covering the top of a two-level parking structure, the High Garden is a departure from typical rooftop gardens in that it provides recreation opportunities for up to 650 uses. It integrates active users with basketball and volleyball courts for team sports. Passive uses include a community vegetable garden and a meditation garden complete with meandering rows of bamboo.

Whether playing an afternoon pick-up game, walking with a coworker, or meeting outside among the trees, the design intends for visitors to use the park.

An elliptical running track loops around the park’s perimeter doubling as the main means of circulation and usable fitness space. With visitors raised 30 feet in the air, the path draws

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people towards the roof’s edge and showcases the views of the adjacent preserved heritage trees and the Santa Cruz Mountains off in the distance. Branching off from the running track, a raised walking deck bends in towards the park’s centre and leads visitors to a sequence of experiential settings including a putting green, volleyball court and a large green space. The green space is inspired by the local Peninsula hills with undulating berms and tree groves. These natural features add spatial definition and a sense of place. Criss-crossing through the green space, gravel pathways connect people to shaded seating areas that provide sheltered work spaces.

Alternatively, the open grass areas bring flexibility, acting as an amphitheatre for company events or simply as a space to lay out a picnic blanket.

Native and adapted grasses, shrubs, and vines — about 20 different species — celebrate the diversity of the California landscape and reduce irrigation needs. Particular plant varieties, including cape reed and feather reed grass, attract beneficial insects and birds while providing food and habitat. Where irrigation is necessary, reclaimed water is used exclusively resulting in no impact on potable water supplies

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with the exception of the vegetable garden. The rooftop also contributes significantly to improved storm water management and reductions to the heat island effect.

Connecting the High Garden to the campus, the background landscape — adjacent trees, office towers, and mountains are incorporated into the composition of the garden and provide a layered experience for the users. From within the park you are visually connected to the campus and the surrounding natural environment. From the nearby office tower, large sweeping gestures such as the elevated walking deck and the radial organization of the community garden provide visual interest.

The High Garden is a place where campus users can separate themselves from the workplace while still feeling connected to the greater landscape.

The High Garden introduces a healthier, greener landscape model for corporate campuses as it provides a new place for people to connect to one another and the environment. Since the concept has proved successful and attractive to tech employees, DES A+E is currently designing four additional rooftop parks, the highest of which will be raised nine stories in the air overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

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Inspiring young minds By: GAJ Architects

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The concept: From the outset both the design team and client agreed that the major inspiration for the design of the Ladybird Early Learning Centre should inspire young minds through the creative use of space coupled with thoughtful internal and external spatial sequences.

In keeping with this, and the LEED Gold aspiration, the team created a simple contemporary structure that responds to the site and environment in a holistic approach.

The building comprises three primary wings radiating from a central heart containing the reception, a café for parents to congregate and internal play areas. Two of these wings contain classrooms with the third allocated for offices, administration and an employee area.

All classrooms facing onto the courtyard have large glazed screens that open onto shaded play decks that further blurs the distinction between inside and out encouraging the children to learn through exploration.

Internal gardens with bi-fold doors allow for seamless integration between internal and external spaces. In the cooler months these expand the potential play area for the pupils.

This interior landscape was designed to enable pupils

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to learn by discovery and exploration. Internal streets with road markings and roundabouts, and even a duck pond, are punctuated with houses between each open classrooms to represent an exterior landscape which can only be accessed in the winter months. The houses double as bathrooms, storage and washing facilities for both children and adults. Each of the age groups is represented by a different colour of ladybird to delineate departments.

The interior is also linked directly with the exterior landscape both visually and physically flooding the central spaces with natural light.

The building is orientated to minimise solar gain and provide an easy flow of traffic from the surrounding road system.

A simple palette of white render and coloured ceramic tiles was used in conjunction with coloured features to aid location of entrances and wayfinding. Colourful signage increase the visual presence of the school along the key transport routes.

Ladybird Early Learning Centre is the first dedicated early years setting in the Middle East and the fourth in the world to win the coveted United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy & Environment Design (LEED) Gold certification.

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About GAJ GAJ (Godwin Austen Johnson) is one of the largest and longest-established UK architectural and design practices in the UAE. Throughout its history, which spans more than 25 years, the company has created some of the Emirates most iconic buildings and has helped define the Emirates as we know it today.

An award-winning and multi-disciplinary architecture, interior design, specialist lighting and MEP practice, GAJ has particular expertise in hotel and hospitality, residential and commercial, education, sport and leisure design. Despite its years the company remains young and dynamic employing more than 180 employees from its Dubai headquarters with offices also in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Riyadh, Jeddah, Muscat, Salalah, Doha and the UK. The GAJ portfolio of work is extensive with a wide range of built and ongoing projects across the Middle East and North Africa.

Godwin Austen Johnson is committed to the belief that the quality of the built environment is an essential part of the economic and cultural fabric of society in which the very best architectural approach plays a central and intrinsic role.

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Name of Project: Ladybird Early Learning Centre Completed: 2016 Location: Dubai Project type: education The design team: Jason Burnside, Kathryn Brown, Raina Viegas and Avinash Kumar of Godwin Austen Johnson (GAJ)

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An Argentine estancia is giving a new lease of life

Landscape revitalization:

that old ritual By: Jimena Martignoni

This is a project about landscape rehabilitation and, to some extent, preservation. Although this is a private estate and is not listed as an historic or cultural landscape, it clearly has historic and cultural values and aspects which are what the designers set as top priorities for their work.

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Santa Elena is a typical argentine estancia (estate or large stay), made up of a main house, stables and other facilities and large agricultural and cattle fields; in this case agricultural purposes mainly. Located 75 kilometers west of the City of Buenos Aires, this traditional stay was originally built in 1928 when a Belgian

immigrant founded this site and a small town called Villa Flandria which prospered as a town of 10,000 inhabitants.

The estancia, which belongs to the family of the founder, wasn’t well maintained over the last twenty years, until one of the grandsons decided to work on a revitalization plan and called landscape designers Ines Stewart and Cecilia Murray. They spent a year and a half clearing the site, after an in-depth site survey for which they hired specialized agronomists, and put together a task schedule based on diverse priorities. The site is rented for social events so the idea was to finish the spaces first that were located closest to the main house.

Cecilia Murray explains: “When we first came into the site, large trees and overgrown shrubs blocked out the sunlight and the views toward the park and open areas. We established a methodic plan to mark trees to be removed and those which should be treated. It looked as if we were doing nothing but clearing the site, but that was what allowed the place to recover its original balance and, then, what allowed the implementation of an integral plan with new planting and new spaces.”

They also tracked down old paths and traced some new ones that would allow visitors to get into the different areas of the park and to create new pedestrian and vehicular connections.

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access. Once the visitor gets into the actual site, a first welcoming avenue directs the vistas and connects to the main house area.

Here, old Australian pines (Casuarinas) and eucalyptus had to be removed, because they were dying, and were replaced with large poplars (Populus). The idea is to keep monitoring the state of the existing trees and to continue the replacement process whenever that is necessary; over time, this avenue will be fully planted with poplars on both sides.

The bottom of the woods, all along the site and especially in the entry area, is profusely planted with groundcovers. In the past it was mainly hedera helix (Ivy vine) but the designers decided to also incorporate periwinkle (Vincas), thus combining the two species and creating a thick and tidy evergreen carpet. At other spots of the

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park the edges of large masses of groundcovers are intentionally shaped to define paths and spaces, always having a new sense of balance in mind.

By the main house, the most important goal was to open new vistas toward the park and to add vibrant and colourful clusters of trees. With this in mind, the designers incorporated oaks (Quercus) and maple trees (Acer), all of which provide yellow and red hues so typical of the Buenos Aires autumn. But colour was not included only with seasonal hues but also with flowering small trees that mark spaces around the domestic areas, large flower beds framing the gardens by the house and, in a romantic gesture related to old traditions, with “roseraies� or rose gardens. By the house the roses are all red and by the chapel they are all white.

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I cultural landscape The old chapel was also covered in trees and overgrown shrubs and, after clearing them, it popped up in all its splendour, exhibiting brick walls and stained glasses.

The original owner and founder was a bird collector and had built several aviaries of different sizes. Also covered up with plants, they were cleaned and framed with groups of small flowering or fruit trees.

Along these areas paths were either added or renovated; in order to reutilize the flagstones in the site the designers used those that were part of old abandoned areas, in this way also visually unifying them with a single material.

Paths by the stables were also restored or enlarged, creating new connections to some existing lookout towers. Also, the “orangerie” (plantation of orange trees), located at one side of the stables, was restored and completed with some new formal planting.

While working on the site the designers found an old nursery from where they took several good trees to be replanted at the renovated areas. This limited the purchase of new trees and consequently reduced the plan’s budget. Another recycling related decision was to sell the discarded boughs and wood as firewood and, also, to use the

bulbs they found buried around the trees to replant them and create new herbaceous beds.

The “tajamar”, or lowlands which were part of the original grading of the site, were redesigned too. Here, new rock beds which generate small water falls were added, together with new clusters of lilies (Lilium) and daffodil (Narcissus), stepping stones and wooden rustic bridges. The bucolic images of these compositions by the main house offer a new sense of place and remind of the old countryside landscapes.

Landscape architects: Ines Stewart and Cecilia Murray.

Stewart-Murray Office Location: Buenos Aires countryside Area: 900 hectares Date of completion: started in 2013. 2016 yet in final phases Photography: Juano Larrosa

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